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Civil Liability For Damage Caused To The Environment By Hazardous Waste: Lessons For The European Union From The Us Experience, Artemis Hatzi-Hull

LLM Theses and Essays

As environmental awareness has surged over the last two decades, environmental law has rapidly developed. In both agricultural and industrial countries, the environment is a sensitive and vital area where substantial economic interests are at stake. In the United States, many social, political, and economic reasons have spawned rapid expansion of environmental law. Congress has enacted numerous statutes and empowered federal agencies, primarily the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to adopt standards and enforce these new laws. A decade ago, environmental liability was not a major concern for US businesses and was rarely dealt with in commercial contracts. However, the situation …

Incentives For Action: Market-Based Environmental Strategies, Sheikh Sarmad Hafeez

LLM Theses and Essays

Societies have dealt with problems of environmental degradation for centuries, revealing a consistent concern among law makers regarding rates of natural resource consumption. More recently, the United States and other nations have begun to face increasingly perilous environment challenges such as global climate change, indoor pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid rain, urban smog and the degradation of public lands.

The present work explores the environmental problems that, for centuries have plagued our planet, and that continue to threaten it, as well as different approaches to curtail these problems. The present work concludes by showing the most promising of these approaches …